Improvement in portable fences



NTTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

ALBERT BIItOOKER, OF ATALISSA, IOWA.

IMPROVEMENT IN PORTABLE FENCES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 55,051, dated May 29, 1866.

To all whom/t 'may concern:

Be it known that I, ALBERT BnooKER, of Atalissa, in the county ot Muscatine and State of Iowa, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Portable Felices; and I do postA is made longer than O, as shown onthe drawings, to aii'ord a support for the upper rail or tie of the fence.

C is a brace placed diagonally, one end on the ground and the other crossing posts B and A near theirtops, at an angle of about sixty degrees, thereby forming supports for two rails ofthe fence, as shown on the drawings.

D is a short post, the lower end ot' which is placed in the ground, and the upper end is nailed, bolted, or otherwise firmly attached to the cross-slats of the fence. I nail cross-slats to the brace O and posts A and B. These slats serve as rests and supports for the fencerails and give great rmness and strength to the structure.l

The brace C and posts A and B are held iirmly together by nails. The fence-rails need not be nailed together or to the posts or slats, but I usually make their ends in the form of wedges and place them so as to la-p by each other on the cross-slats.

The great advantage ot' my device consists in the cheapness of its construction, combined with its extraordinary strength and firmness. It may be made of round poles or crooked timber when fencing materials are scarce or poor, and I am condent that with the best of materials l can construct this fence as cheap! ly as any other yet devised which is designed for easy removal. It will be discovered that onlyone post in each section enters the ground, and that is a very short one, easily and cheaply replaced when the earth has rotted its lower end. I usually sharpen the lower end of this post and drive it down with a Sledge.

It is sometimes desirable to cut notches in the upper rail or tie, so as to adapt it for lying snugly down in the crotch formed for it by brace G and post A. Such notches serve to give additional firmness to the fence.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A fence having posts A, B', and D, with brace O, and cross-slats and rails, as represented, all constructed, combined, and arranged substantially as herein speciiied.

ALBERT BROOKER.

Witnesses I. N. BRANsoN, LEONARD LAMB. 

